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Commentary, Education
Commentary, Education 
Wednesday
06Aug
Schools for education, not sports
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 05:10PM Refreshing to see Board of Education member Breene Harimoto eyeing the public schools' athletic budget for classroom funds when the state Department of Education apparently doesn't have the stomach for it.
Wednesday
06Aug
Think the Trib has it in for Takamine?
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 10:49AM The Hawaii Tribune-Herald ran the following correction today to a story that was published Monday:
Roland Higashi of Creative Arts Hawaii and real estate investor Monika Mallick made campaign contributions to 5th District County Council candidate Wayne Joseph, not incumbent Emily Naeole as incorrectly reported Monday. And, while Ironworkers Local 625 contributed $5,500 to the 1st District state Senate campaign of Dwight Takamine, Takamine's campaign returned $1,500 to the union to stay within campaign spending limits. The Tribune-Herald regrets the errors.
Attributing the wrong contributors to a campaign is a reporter's mistake that's understandably, though regrettably, made when sorting out all the numbers for multiple candidates on a tight deadline.
But the mistake about Takamine should be inexcusable. The Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today, both owned by Stephens Media Group, already published stories about the contribution in which it falsely accused Takamine of campaign violations in a headline that was never corrected, and the newspapers themselves never reported the fact that Takamine was not in violation of anything connected with the donation.
The newspaper did report correctly in June that the contribution was returned to the union upon the campaign's own discovery of the error, according to the Campaign Spending Commission, which makes the continued reporting of the contribution in Monday's edition, correction today or not, look like serious, perhaps even malicious, disregard for the facts, and raising the question of whether there really is a dirty tricks campaign against Takamine in the Stephens Media news columns.
Update on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 02:18PM by
Hunter Bishop
Hunter Bishop
In the last paragraph I incorrectly referred to "Friday's edition," where I should have written "Monday's edition." It has been fixed. My apologies for the error.
Tuesday
05Aug
Cash-poor Moore miffed at debate snub
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 03:32PM 
Jasper MooreMayoral candidate Jasper Moore is not happy about being excluded from the Hawaii County Bar Association's mayoral debate after the Bar Association decided to streamline its debate format by inviting only the four candidates with the most campaign contributions.
Tuesday
05Aug
Gumapac in debt, but to whom?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 01:59PM Kale Gumapac raised $889.75 in contributions for his County Council campaign but so far has spent $7,804.49, most of which is unaccounted for in his campaign spending report, filed late but now online.
Tuesday
05Aug
Ford takes aim at Waiawi biocontrol plan
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 08:17AM Kona Councilwoman Brenda Ford will introduce a resolution calling for the federal and state departments of agriculture to stop the release of a scale insect imported from Brazil that, according to researchers, would reduce the harmful effects of waiawi, or strawberry guava, on native forests in Hawaii. (Proposed text of the resolution is here.)
Monday
04Aug
Henkel Toon looks at Hawaii Free Press
Monday, August 4, 2008 at 09:40PM 
A tip of the hat to cartoonist Greg Henkel.
Sunday
03Aug
Only Naeole, Joseph file spending reports
Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 09:30PM Updated on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 07:52AM by
Hunter Bishop
Only two of the five candidates for the Fifth County Council District filed Campaign Spending reports by Thursday's filing deadline.
Sunday
03Aug
Inouye gets most big, off-island support
Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 04:51PM Jason Armstrong did a nice job covering the mayor's race money reports on Friday so no need covering that ground again. Instead I took a look at where the big cash is coming from.
Sunday
03Aug
Poll looks good for Kenoi, Pilago
Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 09:28AM It's a three-way race for mayor with a huge bloc of undecided voters, according to a Hawaii Tribune-Herald poll that reflects what I wrote here on July 24.